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Royal Liverpool University Hospital
Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust
Main Entrance and Emergency Department at the existing Royal Liverpool University Hospital (completed in 1978)
Location in Liverpool Show map of Liverpool Location in Merseyside Show map of Merseyside
Geography
Location	Prescot Street, Liverpool, L7 8XP.
Coordinates	53°24′34″N 2°57′51″W / 53.40944°N 2.96412°W / 53.40944; -2.96412Coordinates: 53°24′34″N 2°57′51″W / 53.40944°N 2.96412°W / 53.40944; -2.96412
Organisation
Care system	Public NHS
Hospital type	Teaching
Affiliated university	University of Liverpool, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Services
Emergency department	Yes Accident & Emergency; Major Trauma Centre
Beds	850
Speciality	Organ Transplantation, Nephrology, Endocrinology, Ophthalmology, Vascular Surgery, Hepatology, Hepatobiliary Surgery, Orthopaedics, Oncology, Respiratory Medicine, Regional Tropical and Infectious Disease Unit.
History
Founded	1978
Links
Website	www.rlbuht.nhs.uk

The Royal Liverpool University Hospital (RLUH) is a major teaching and research hospital located in the city of Liverpool, England.
Alongside Broadgreen Hospital and Liverpool University Dental Hospital, the hospital is managed by the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust and is associated with the University of Liverpool, Liverpool John Moores University and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

The Royal Liverpool is the largest and busiest hospital in Merseyside and Cheshire, and has the largest emergency department of its kind in the UK.^[1]

History

Current hospital

The current hospital, originally known simply as the Royal Liverpool Hospital, was designed to replace three other city centre acute hospitals that existed at the time – the Liverpool Royal Infirmary on Pembroke Place, the David Lewis Northern Hospital on Great Howard Street, and the Royal Southern Hospital on Caryl Street.^[2] It had been agreed to amalgamate the separate facilities on a site within close proximity to the University of Liverpool for the purposes of medical education and research. The site on which the current hospital now stands (on Prescot Street) was identified as part of the post-war regeneration of Liverpool. However, building on the main hospital did not commence until 1963. The first phase of the hospital was designed by Holford Associates and built by Alfred McAlpine between 1963 and 1969.^[3] The construction was plagued from the outset by problems of cost, time and quality, together with difficulties over fire certification due to changes in health and safety law whilst building work was ongoing. The second phase was completed and the hospital eventually opened in 1978.^[4]

The new Royal Liverpool University Hospital (on the right), now due to open in 2020.

Redevelopment

In December 2013 the landmark £429 million redevelopment of the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, procured under a Private Finance Initiative contract, reached financial close; its collaborative links with the University of Liverpool, and institutes on the Liverpool BioCampus, have given the city of Liverpool recognition as one of the leading UK centres for health research and innovation.^[5] The new Royal Liverpool University Hospital, which was designed by NBBJ and HKS^[6] and was being built by Carillion, was expected to be the largest all single-patient room hospital in the UK upon its originally scheduled completion of March 2017.^[7][8]

In March 2017, the project was running more than a year late due to problems caused by asbestos, cracking concrete and bad weather,^[9] and further delays were announced in early January 2018.^[10] Less than a fortnight later, on 15 January 2018, Carillion went into liquidation, partly due to its problems with the hospital contract, and delaying the project still further,^[11][12] with the hospital unlikely to be finished in 2018.^[13] On 26 March 2018, it was reported that the project had been costing £53.9m more than Carillion had officially reported.^[14] In September, the NHS Trust revealed that the cost of rectifying serious faults, including replacing non-compliant cladding installed by Carillion, was holding up plans to restart and finish the £350m project; with the project further delayed, the Trust was considering invoking a break clause to terminate the PFI contract.^[15] On 24 September 2018, it was reported that the government would step in to terminate the PFI deal, taking the hospital into full public ownership, meaning a £180m loss for private sector lenders Legal & General and the European Investment Bank.^[16] This was confirmed on 26 September 2018, with completion of the hospital in 2020 likely to cost an additional £120m, due to unforeseen issues left behind by Carillion.^[17] Construction work was expected to resume in November 2018.^[18] On 26 October 2018 Laing O'Rourke was confirmed as the contractor to complete the project,^[19] but, a month later, with the contractor not prepared to take any risk, Mace was also appointed to help manage risks associated with the £350m scheme.^[20]

Rating

In 2007, the Healthcare Commission rated Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust "Good" for 'Quality of Services' and Good for 'Use of Resources'.^[21] In 2009, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust was rated "Excellent" for the quality of its services and the quality of its financial management.^[22]

Teaching and research

The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is a major teaching and research hospital for student doctors, nurses, dentists and allied health professionals. The hospital works with the University of Liverpool, Liverpool John Moores University and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.^[23]

See also

• List of hospitals in England


• Knowledge Quarter, Liverpool


• Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine


• University of Liverpool


• University of Liverpool School of Medicine


• Liverpool John Moores University


• Healthcare in Merseyside

References

Sources

• 
  Gray, Tony (1987). The Road to Success: Alfred McAlpine 1935 - 1985. Rainbird Publishing.
  

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